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Lot 186
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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500
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HAYES, Joseph (1918-2006). A group of 3 inscribed titles, comprising:
1) The Desperate Hours (inscribed in year of publication, [1954]; dust-jacket wanting).
2) The Hours After Midnight (inscribed in year of publication, [1958]).
3) Don't Go Away Mad (inscribed in year of publication, [1962]); with an inscribed sheet by Hayes, dated 1980.
[With:] The Third Day. New York, etc.: Random House/McGraw-Hill, 1954-64. (Dust-jacket wanting, but with a supplied copy laid in).
[With:] printed ephemera laid in (relating to theatrical performances, etc.).
Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all 8vo, all in original cloth, 2 in dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, 3 INSCRIBED by Hayes to American illustrator and children's book author Joseph Low (1911-2007), and his wife, Ruth Low, condition generally good.




